Dr. Alyssa Cossey is a conductor, singer, educator, and scholar. She is a contributing author for a new textbook on women composers (edited by Hilary Apfelstadt), an inaugural member of Mirabai, and is currently serving as Associate Director of Choral Activities at Coastal Carolina University. Before relocating to the East Coast, she was an Assistant Professor of Choral Music at the University of Arizona. Prior to that, she taught both middle and high school choir in Southern California for nearly a decade. Dr. Cossey holds degrees from Michigan State University, California State University, Fullerton, and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.